next brendan says he'll shift his focus to florida where he lives during the offseason and california, which is his homestate. >> reporter: i'm peggy fox in richmond. can senator elect tim kaine build bridges in washington like he did story? >> this is bruce johnson. coming up there's a new d.c. council member, the first time an incumbent has lost since 1998. i'll have that story. >> but first the role of the social media in this year's election. >>> just like in '08 this election earned plenty of attention all over the world, but perhaps more than '08 there was the world of social media and joining me now to talk about that, our social media editor simon landou and one picture in particular got a lot of attention. >> we talk so often about the power of images and what you're looking at here is a tweet sent by barack obama's campaign. if you can kind of look in there, just says four more years and it was a photo of the president hugging the first lady, but this became the most retweeted tweet in history of twitter. now that happened in just 22 minutes according to the social networkin